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I 

With oft repeated steps and laoor long bestowed. 

And high resolve, we, faino and worn, have gained these heights supreme. 
In bold crusade, and halting now on Hood’s illumined arch 
Seek brief repose for nature’s failing powers. 

Since early morn no pause, or rest; nor flowers. 

Or trees have brought relief to weary hours. 

No pathway marked those rigid wastes to guide our toilsome march. 

Whilst dread crevasse and icy steeps and sluggish giiacier scream 
Beset the way to this grand temple of our God. 


II 

To Thee, Oh King j Instinctive turns each-humbled soul. 

Its genesis to Know, its mission, and its end; to learn 
What purpose moved the Will Divine to rear this mighty hill; 

Why crown it thus with coronet of snow ? 

Why bless with fruitage rich that world below ? 

Why curse it all with strife and want and woe ? 

Of all thy creatures there doth man alone array his will 

In arms against Thy laws, betray and slay his kinsmen born. 

’Twas ever thus; Must thus it oe while time shall roll ? 

Ill 

What sacrifice can these Thy cluldren offer here; 

What prayer present, oolation oring unto this holy place 
To gain curcease of woe and Dear the balm to men below ? 

What potent charm may oan man’s selfishness. 

Or him exalt above case brutishness. 

Or prove that Love alone is blessedness ? 

Teach us. Oh ; Soul Divine, these priceless, needful things to know. 
That we, thus fraught with last and only blessing due our race. 

To earth may speed and banish sin, dry ev’ry rear. 










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Behold ; the North displays yet other monarchs grand, 

Like unto this, and Southward others, priest robed, still do rise. 
Best types of strength supreme and beauty past comparison. 

Pacific’s rev’rent sea doth wash their feet. 

E’en as pf old Devotion oft did greet 
Men sanctified, and render service meet. 

In farthest distance deserts trace the Eastern horizon, 

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While blended hills and vales and fields and streams and woods com— 
The nearer world ; and this, all this, our native land! 

V 

Above these crags, with loyal hearts, we raise the gemmed 

And sun streaked flag, the loved and boasted sign of Freedom’s home 
Ah ; Liberty is only found above ail mijfcnor heights; 

O’er Noah’s mount the rainbow first appeared; 

On Sinai laws sacred first were heard; 

From Olivet Love taught^potent word 
WhiGh erstwhile moved the world for Mercy, Justice, and the Right; 

Its echo now men scarce may hear amidst the moil and gloom 
Whereto, and wild unrest, alas ! we go again. 

VI 

All yester eve, at verge of F '^p’s oright domain. 

Where winter gray young summer mee^ts, on ashen couch we lay. 

The azure arch, star decked and vast, our only canopy; 

When Saturn’s son arose in eastern s^ies. 

With him Love’s cmeen; in startled, pleased surprise. 

Fair Venus smiled upon our bold emprise. 

Whiles Mercury, attendant there, now hot with Jealousy, 

To Jupiter the tidings sped that mortals dared essay 
Intrusion where dread Zeus holds his lonely reign. 




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Olympus’ Xing the message heard; portentous ire 

Roused all his ancient energy: responsive to his call 
The gods again prepared Jove’s awful enginery for war; 

Glad cyclops brought the dread artillery. 

And Boreas his storm-born cavalry. 

Whilst Jupiter his cloud-bred infantry 
Did marshal quick from neighbor streams and lakes, and seas afar. 

On Cascades’ serrate pile he mustered them, as on a wall 
High buttressed ’gainst the base of Hood’s exalted spire. 


VIII 

Through gorge and canyon weird and wild, and mountain rent. 

Whose deeps profound no earthling e’er may exploration maxe. 

The army of the gods came on, depolying at our feet. 

Above the host, displayed with pleasing care. 

Were billowed banners spread, now gray, now fair 
And white, soft floating on the summer air. 

Anon a distant thunder-boom, which echoes scaree repeat; 

Another shot, but nearer still, then all the hills did waxe. 

And moaning woods beshrewed the tempest’s dire intent. 

IX 

By columns moving slow, and files in swift detour, 

•Rheir ranks spread o’er the earth, as on a bier a pall is laid; 

To us the world was dead, with inky drapings on its tomb. 

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The lava isles on Hood’s white robe were hung; 

To these our brave crusaders deuntless clung 
And noted well the gleam and flash of weapons in the gloom 

Beneath, the thunder’s voice, the moon’s pale corse descending, sad 
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Then storming scuadrons, upward sent, in fierce disdain 

Beset our camp; front r flanivs and rear their horsemen charged, recoiled, 
Returned, till grime and wrack, high whirling, veiled the startled stard/ 
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And pelted licuid missiles, thus to fright 
Our strange, invading, from its height. 

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Of gnarled and stunted trees we raised defense; below us far. 

And out of range, the Titans shot their thunder bolts and toiled 
In vain to move their ordnance up the steep moraine. 


XI 

We slept. A ougle blast, e’re yet ’twasdawn, recalled 

The pilgrim horde to toil unwont and Lheir desire supreme: 

With Alpen staves well shod, steel spurs upon our feet, and guise 

Of soot o’erspread each face - a sure defense 

’Gainst mirrored sun, and beauty’s vain pretense 
Of merit here — we bowed in reverence 
Before our monarch’s royal front, white limned against the sues, 

And thus began the march, a broken, fragmentary stream 
Of pigmies creeping, snail like, up the siwall. 

XII 

The van, betimes, like fabled sprites in seas of snow. 

Had passed volcanoe’s seething gulf, their tash thus half complete; 
Still up along a glacier ridge on path scarce hand-breadth wide. 

Their only road, they ventured on in file. 

As on the roof of huge cathedral pile - 

One step aside that slippy, narrow trail. 

The hapless victim needs must plunge in crater’s gape, else glide. 
Resistless, to that circled, blue abyss whence, roaring, beat 
White river’s waves, three thousand feet below. 




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Their frost baroed lances through our shrinking flesh till oreath and 
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XIV 

Whence Amphitrite’s 5a7^ eyed sons, at forge, contrive 
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That bounds their drear aDode the high extended vents emerge 
At crater’s edge, in chimney huge and olacK. 

Our laggards there essayed from winds and wracK 
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Seditious then, they fled in clamorous retreat to verge 

Of shelt’ring woods, a crestless, vanquished crew. Our van, the while 
Upon the ridge, Mazama’s honor dared retrieve. 

XV 

With scimitar of flame the sun, now rising slow. 

Gashed deep the body of the storm — a horizontal blow — 

And poured his glory through the wound. Therein we stood entranced, 
’Midst scenes no man e’er dreamed before, or Knew; 

A canopy of fire, enlaced with olue 
And gold and green and tints of opal hue, 

Made curtains more than oeautiful scarce o’er our heads advanced. 

While waves of jasper, crowned with mother-pearl, roiled just oelow 
Our feet, now couched in bed of brilliants all aglow. 






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Then gazing out that magic rift the wonders grew 

Beyond man’s utmost phantasy ; upon the silentearth 
That somber vesture lay, now mixing gray and tipped with white. 
While Cascade’s pea*s, like studded jewels, gleam 
Upon the pall — a chain o t gems which seems 
A range of fountains spouting rainbow oeams. 

Then, lo ! a specter mountain in the west appeared, in height. 

And form similitude of this, its oattled peans and girth 
The same, its bulK upreared in Heaven’s eternal blue. 

XVII 

Whence came that phantom hill v The western s^ies were pure. 

No cloud, or any thing terrestrial, a screen supplied 
Whereon a shadow might be cast, the air was clear and chill. 

And yet erect that ghostly semolance stood 
Scarce five miles hence, and all the while a flood 

Of light illumed its crown - another Hood ! 

At first a shadow form, it denser, orighter grew, until 

It seemed a mountain true, whereon mazamas well might hide 
In safe retreat, from hunters ’ savage wiles secure. 

XVIII 

Thus while we stood beneath that iris canopy 

On glowing pavement dashed with waves up-rolled from pearly oea. 
And marvelled of that spirit mount, a shadow came behind 
The new-born hill — a shade on purest blue; 

’Twas ill defined at first, but quickly grew 
More dark, and soon oecame distinct to view, 

A more prodigious mountain form, a second phantom, lined 

In air; and all., the while the first remained intact, its head 
With splendor crowned, — then vanished Doth, like phantasies. 


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Above us still that irridescent ceiling burned 

In folds of mingled hues more gorgeous than auroral dawn. 

With all of terrene gems combined, through many roods displayed: 

The flowing nimbus at our feet oecame 
A mottled stream of burnished gold; we fain 
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Each mortal form in shining rooes Elysium had come. ! 

Alas ! the vision died, the sombrous clouds returned. 

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The waning storm now circled Hood in slow retreat; 

Our lessened ranks still trailed the ridge, till, lo * a vast crevasse 
In ice yet old when man was made, had sut the field in twain;* 

We filed to left and still scant path pursued 
Along the nether shore where caverns, hued 
As oclean waves, in silent grandure wooed 
Amoition’s quest. A oridge, oy timely snow slide ouilt amain 
Across the gulf, supplied to upper slopes a fragile pass; 

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One effort more — a thousand feet — and victory J 

With labored breath and quaking flesh we, silent, turned to view 
The conoured field: ah ! wondrous change; that wintry store was gone: 
It vanished as a dream the while we bent 
The final struggle here. Y/e, thus intent 
Upon the task assumed, were full content 
To look upon this goal laone until the prize was won: 

We won a prize, a rapture deep, no mortals ever knew. 

Lest they, as we, had earned exalted ecstasy. 




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Now marshaled here, close grouped, upon this peerless hill. 

In summer’s noonday glow and wrapped in winter’s fierce embrace. 

We loot upon the flag and note its constellation’s gleam 
New set among the stars; then join in song : 

“Our Country ’tis of thee. ” The voices, strong 
With patriotic zeal and pride, prolong 
The throbbing symphony: but weird and strange the measures seem; 

Responding to our hymn no echoed answer give us trace 
Of sympathy. Ah \ can this bode our country ill ? 

XXIII 

With freemen torn by factions, ruled by sordid zeal. 

With hunger, gaunt and fierce, crouched close by plenty’s swollen side 
Dir9 evils breed, as teeth by Cadmus sown, through all our land. 

No bees, or ants, or birds, or beasts, but find 
In nature better laws, each for their find. 

Than any trioe of men has e’er defined 
In booXs or creeds. Alarmed, oppressed, our loyal people stand 
Bewildered in a maze of legislation, while a tide 
Of petty partisans o’erwhelms our country’s weal. 

XXIV 

And is it true as cynics warn and fear declares. 

That manhood in America hath won its highest plane ? 

That none remain in all the land regardful for its good ? 

That men no more may looX aoove and see 
Yet grander heights as future destiny. 

Or hope for Justice, Love or Liberty ? 

And must humanity now halt its march on upward road 

To turn, despairing, cow’ring, on the downward course again ? 

Oh ; God ! attend the early prayer we offered here. 


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And grant us Balm Bivine to oear below; give light 

To gxaide poor mortals through the gloom that shrouds their weary lives 
To happiness and peace, desigBdd for them when time was new. 

Alas I from pulseless deeps attentive ear 
Can feel no sound, nor voice* nor answer hear; 

Yet, mystic, sacred presence brooding near 
Assuages fear, and slow disti&s its holy essence through 
Each votive heart and thus a secret, blest assurance gives 
That Light will come, with .Mercy, Justice and the Right. 

XXVI 

Lo ! marX again that pall which yester-night was drawn 

Above the earth, where busy Titans hurled their flashy beams 
In wrathful impotence, and thundered angiily ; behold 
Yon eastern fringe, where viewless forms of air 
Now rend the surtain; others still, more near 
The glowing mountain peaXs, assist and tear 
The dusXy fabric into fragments; these in turn are rolled 

LiXe ancient parchment booXs and laid in canyons and ravines; 
ihe sun there burns them quicX and ail our foes are gone. 


XXVII 

light celestial bathes the waXened woi'ld; we gaze 
For pillared smoXe and signal flash and Xnow ten thousand eyes 
^re straining now to catch our note of victory attained; 

Last, North ane/ South the columned signs attest 
That anxious friends await, and from the West 
R.efecled sunbeams glint our mountain’s crest. 

No answer can we give; each puny throat is taxed in vain 

For trumpet tones; the voice falls, wingless, at our feefc and dies 
On beds of snow, and all too small this flag we raise. 







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The Cascades’ woody hills their varied colors blend 

With others ranked afar and near, and to enchanted eye 
They seem as richest broidery engrained in tapestry 
Spread o’er the earth. A silver thread appears 
Where rolls the ancient Oregon and hears 
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Were young: broad valleys aid the grand design; the dusivy gray 
Of deserts and ihe sea a fringe and border fair supply. 

On carpet thus displayed this hoary chiettam stands. 

XXIX 

Erect upon this jutting crag, extended far 

Beyond the circled rim oi earth, we whirl through boundless space 
At comet speed and learn the grandure of Divinity; 

Mere atoms on this rock we seem, upthrown 
By Time’s unmeasured waves; in turn this dome 
Eburnean is dwindled and become 
A iragile flake of snow; the continent’s sublimity 

Is swallowed in the sea; this globe itself hath but a place 
As grain of dust adrift among the million stars. 1 

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Long ere maternal yearning moved the Orphic dave 

To brood o’er primal anarchy in night and solitude. 

Or cosmic law gave neoula due form and sphere, or sun 
Or orb had place, the pregnant ether core 
Each element whereof this whirling car 
Whereon we ride was wrought. Perchance this hour 
And scene were then in contemplation held by Him, the One 
Intelligence, who into being called this multitude 
O.t souls assembled here, awed witness to His love. 




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“Tahoma” - thus the native Indian legends run - 

“ A god magnificent and pure of soul,dwelt in a grove 
Of giant trees where stands this mountain now. None came to share 
His meditations, or his loneliness. 

Till form empyreal, of loveliness 
And grace and majesty and holiness 

Co-eoual with his own, swept through the vault - a goddess lair 

On errand from the stars. ’Twas Red Tamahnous, queen of love ; 
Tahoma saw, she smiled and passed beyond the sun. 


XXXII 

Aflame with strange, ecstatic fire the fervent glpd 

In sleepless vigil, waited through the years for her return -- 

Ten hundred years: she came at last, at rising 'f che sun. 

Exalting all his form Tahoma rose r 

To greet his queen: in maidenly repose 
She lingered in the west; upon her brows 
A wreathed effulgence flamed. In form the lovers were as one. 

Their ornaments the same. Each learned that fires celestial burn 
Where love is pure. Thus, near opposed, they willing stood. 

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Companionship — that she, with silver hair undressed and spread 
In beauty through the shies, no more from stars to sun should roam. 

An errant messenger. She gave consent: 

Above the pair a morning halo bent. 

The Greater Spirit’s tohen of assent. 

Wit}j arms outstretched the god essayed to clasp his bride’s fair form 
When, lo : behind her rose a grisly shape of aspect dread : 

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’ Twas Black Tamahnous, fiend, of rage and hate, the foe 

Of all the good and pure in heaven, on earth; relentless, fierce. 
Of form prodigious, aspect foul, she murders joy and hope 
Where e’re she goes. Transfixed Tahoma stood ; 

Then burst his heart; above his head the blood. 

In fountain red and hot, poured all its flood. 

And thus he (fried. The Spirit Great bewailed his son and wove 
A mantle pure and white around his form, and as the years 
Speed past renews the garo, symbolical of woe. 

XXXV 

And ever as uhe summer comes ohe mystic queen. 

Forbidden ever to return as comet to Lhe sky. 

Steals silently from out the west, at rising of the sun, 

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To look upon her lover’s mantled form. 

And meditate, alone, that sweet, sad morn 

When first they met; and still the hag, hell born. 

Pursues and draws obscuring veil o’er each ; to realms unknown 
They thus return. The tale is orue, ior even mortal eye. 

When blest of sight, may yet behold that very scene. ” 

XXXVI 

Thus runs the tale of Red Tamahnous, hag and Hood ; 

Were those the phantom iorms we saw this morn, and were we bles 
With more than mortal vision while we stood in rift of storm ? 

Ah ; who shall read that wondrous mystery. 

Or ever know how far Time’s history, 

Unwritten e’en in rocks,’may testify 

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Thus much we know: That once the lava on this mountain’s crest 
Was red and hot within ins breast -- a sea of blood. 





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Volcanic mass, congealed, we pile in altar broad 

And strong, and gather near to write new page in history; 
Mazama’s record here oegins and hath no parallel. 

Unique our sect: new laws we irame; 

Each rev’rent novice then inscribes his name. 

In solemn oeste, upon this roll oi fame. 

In casket now, with zealous care, we place the sacred scroll 
And this within the altar fix, as in a sacristy. 

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